§ 5. Any commissioner of police, superintendent of police, chief of
police, or other officer or officers, having the management, control or
direction of the police force of any city of the first or second class
in this state, and any inspector, captain, lieutenant, sergeant or
roundsman of the police force of any such city, who shall violate any of
the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed by law.